Mike Lee

Mike Lee

@rocketpatrol.bsky.social

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Author (sf/fantasy), video game writer, retro geek. Have raygun, will travel. Currently working on CLOCKWORK REVOLUTION at inXile Entertainment.

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The thing about this that chills me the most? That incremental growth of cruelty, designed to harden people into accepting the next atrocity? Fox news and right-wing media have already been at it for decades. A significant portion of this country is already well conditioned to evil.

I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.

he voted in 2020 and 2022 voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...

The Radical Roberts Courtopen.substack.com The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court l...

Brazen, breathtaking corruption. The conservatives on the Supreme Court are not interested in the impartial adjudication of the law. They solely exist to further the interests of Trump, the Republican party, and its ultra-wealthy donors.

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there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight

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You heard it here first folks. When engineers say what the radius of a highway curve should be, that’s communism. Public health rules for safe drinking water? Communism.

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The same poll everyone is freaking out about for Biden also shows a majority of respondents saying Trump is a liar and should not be running for office. Think about why that isn’t driving media discussion, why they’re focusing on this and not that, whose interests are being served.

Guys. I am not a quant person but even I know that pushing a sub sample of a larger phone poll from early in June with a 0.8% response rate, where no one who ignores unlabeled numbers on their cellphone responded, tells you nothing about the electorate. Stop letting bad polls drive your politics.

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Here’s some math courtesy of Nate Powell to keep in mind when signing that graphic novel deal. #comics

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This should be front-and-center in every “hey why are so many VCs backing Trump this time” article. Joe Biden has spent 3.5 years rebuilding administrative capacity. We now have regulators actually saying “hey knock it off that’s illegal.” The VCs would much prefer autocracy to accountability.

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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Ohioans, today is a good day to check to see if you are still registered to vote in our state. And if you are not, or if you haven't registered yet, today is also a very good day to do so. www.axios.com/local/columb...

Ohio is purging its voter rolls before November electionwww.axios.com See if you're on the list of more than 158,000 people.

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I DON’T WANT TECH TO MAKE BAD ART I WANT TECH TO MAKE MY DOG LIVE SIXTY YEARS

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progressives cannot force the resignation of people who have consciously chosen to live without shame, but howling with outrage and making the behavior of this court a consistent major scandal is how you lay the groundwork for the reform we will need to break its power

When it was revealed that Justice Abe Fortas received $15,000 for teaching a seminar at American University, conservatives howled so much that they blocked his elevation to chief justice and then forced his resignation.

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here’s an advance copy of the ethics code

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says it's adopting an ethics code as the justices face criticism over undisclosed travel and gifts.

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FBI guy 1: it doesn’t matter what we put on the stakeout van, it can be anything, just say we do floors FBI guy 2: what kind of floors FBI guy 1: who gives a shit! all types of floors! get the fuck outta here!

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The thing I've seen absent from all the stories about Trump posting a "staffer's" video that included the phrase UNIFIED REICH is that the video was clearly AI generated. So when Trumpers put Trump into an AI and said make an ad that says this, this, and this, even the AI was like "Dude is a Nazi."

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Oh weird you mean it was a net revenue generator all the millionaires didn't flee the state like they said they would wow that's crazy

The Massachusetts "millionaires tax" has vastly surpassed projections, bringing in more than $1.8 billion in revenue so far this fiscal year — with the prospect of a surplus of hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on transportation and education

State’s ‘millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year, blowing past state projections - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The estimated haul is already $800 million more than what Governor Maura Healey and state lawmakers planned to spend from its revenue in fiscal year 2024.

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Seriously, don’t use Google Drive products for things you can’t afford to lose. They have total arbitrary control over your access and can revoke it at any time without explanation.

Recently, Google restricted my access to my own manuscript, without warning or appeal. I figured a way around it, but I'm letting people know how not-safe Google Drive is.

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Even by the degraded standards of today’s court, the possibility that one or more of the justices supported an effort to end the constitutional order they’ve sworn to uphold is a outrageous new low www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why Was Alito Flying the Flag Upside Down After January 6?www.theatlantic.com Justice Alito blamed his wife for the incident, but he did not disavow what the symbol stands for.

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Republicans are signaling as loudly as they can that they are not just pulling away from Democratic norms they are increasingly signaling rule of law is only applied to their enemies. Perry is a far right terrorist who will do violence again with the states backing.

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ICYMI, I looked at all 33 states that have supreme court races in 2024. These are bodies that greatly shape civil & voting rights, abortion, and a lot more — making it critical to know who's on the ballot, & what it means. So here's everything you need to know:

Your State-by-State Guide to the 2024 Supreme Court Electionsboltsmag.org Voters this year are deciding the fate of 82 seats across 33 states’ high courts. Cases involving abortion, democracy, and other critical issues hang in the balance.

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This is so painfully true

recently, when video game execs have laid people off and shut down studios, they've announced plans to re-focus their reduced workforces' energies on franchises, often at the expense of new projects and series. we can't keep going like this aftermath.site/microsoft-la...

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Just $20 left to unlock the whole match! And a thousand to our goal!

Good morning! It's time to give to my beloved Lexington Writer's Room -- and the @scalzi.com Foundation has generously offered to match the next $1,000 of donations! We're already to cat money! Help us get to dog money! www.kygives.org/organization...

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students being taught how to create barricades and other ways to disrupt active shooters and then using those techniques when attacked by the cops who wouldn't protect them from shooters when they were children is so poetic and so american

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Atomic Robowww.atomic-robo.com The robot punches monsters and bad robots and one time he was a cowboy.

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Blackthorne: Economic growth can be most effectively fostered by lowering taxes, decreasing regulation, and allowing free trade. Consumers will benefit from greater supplies of goods and services at lower prices, and employment will increase. Mariko: The Anjin does not wish to pay his taxes.